Squawking Sky high flats, #Twitter IPO, taxing pot

Talking Squawk—the official "Squawk Box" blog—looks at some deluxe apartments in the sky, the Twitter IPO by the numbers and one state's proposal to raise revenues through weed. This is your weekly dose of tidbits, insights, and sarcasm on the WEEK THAT WAS and the WEEK TO COME from the notepad of the show's senior executive producer.

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Oh, Twitter!

What's left to say about Twitter? We talked about it all week. We all watched it price. We talked to CEO Dick Costolo before and after. We watched live as the stock opened on the NYSE. We watched the tick-by-tick chart. We had every possible analyst, investor and person who's ever tweeted anything on the air this week. We covered it from every angle we could think of and blogged it minute-by-minute.

When you're in the content business and you run out of things to say, you need a new method to communicate your message. So how about we let the numbers speak for themselves.

· $26 ... the number Twitter priced at· $45.10 ... the number Twitter opened at on day one Thursday morning· $44.90 ... the number twitter closed at on day one· 73 percent ... the percentage it opened above its IPO price· $50.09 ... the intraday high Twitter hit on the NYSE on day one· $44 ... the intraday low hit on the NYSE on day one· 231.7 million ... the number of monthly active users (MAUs)· 175 million ... the number of mobile monthly active users (MMAUs)· 76 percent ... percentage of MAUs who are from MMAUs (mostly mobile company)· $422.2 million ... year-to-date revenue· $133.9 million ... year-to-date net loss· 89 percent ... the year-over-year percentage increase in red ink· $32 billion ... Twitter's approximate valuation at the open

When completed, this soaring tower (rendering above) will be a unique feature on the New York skyline and the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. Macklowe Properties and CIM Group began excavating the site on Sept. 26, 2011. And while they were at it, they put in three cameras to monitor the progress.

Sternlicht, real estate mogul and investor

Our goal on "Squawk Box" is to introduce viewers each morning to really smart people. And we spend a large portion of our day trying to persuade really smart people to come on the show and talk to us. Barry Sternlicht is one of those really smart people. He joined us Thursday and said some really smart things. But instead of me trying to tell you what he meant, why not just watch the video clips from the interview below?

We love that Federal Reserve bigwigs now come to Squawk set and play guest host for the morning. This is something that was just unheard of 10 years ago. This week St. Louis Fed President James Bullard spent two hours with us. It was like being live inside an FOMC meeting. We cut up all the best segments in case you missed it and posted the links below.

Oh wait, the Fed heads didn't stop there. Our very own Squawk econo-nerd (that's what we call Steve Liesman) caught up with Boston Fed CEO Eric Rosengren the next day. He told us he wants to see more improvement in the job market and the economy before considering tapering the central bank's $85-billion-a-month bond-buying program.

Becky Quick on Thursday: "We have breaking news. The European Central Bank has just cut interest rates in a surprise move that caught the markets off guard. The European stock exchanges are rallying and the euro is plunging."

Joe Kernen: "You bet, I am already on my European travel website. The dollar is gonna crush the euro!"

Adam Jeffery | CNBC

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google

News tidbits you can (kind of) use

Google's Eric Schmidt is angry about reports that the NSA spied on the company's data center. Does anybody find this ironic coming from one of the biggest aggregators of personal data in the world!?

Google takes pictures of you, your house, your car, your cat and your Halloween decorations all while driving around your neighborhood with a camera saying, "Smile." Then they publish it as part of their maps product without your knowledge or permission. And they're mad at the NSA? How does it feel, Google!?

Then comes our whole behind-the-scenes team: Senior Producer @RobContino (our other senior producer, Anne Tironi, doesn't tweet so I can't mention her handle); Squawk producers @mgreco27 and @ColonelGlasses; Video Producer @dmeelarp, who saves us daily and makes the show look beautiful; and Digital Producer @Matt_SquawkCNBC, who edits this blog and puts it into English every week.

And there's our stellar technical team, led by Squawk Director @PaulDeFabo and Technical Director @keith_falcone. (Our awesome "audio guy," John LeFante, would get a shout-out if only he would join Twitter, but we think he's scared so we can't mention him—or our stage manager, "Mac," who doesn't seem to have a last name, so no logical Twitter handle would make sense.)

Colorado to tax pot for recreational use

Colorado voters approved a measure to tax recreational drug use. CNBC's Becky Quick reports the state will add a 10 percent sales tax when pot sales for recreational use begin on January 1st of 2014.

Tax the joint

Remember all the debate about raising taxes on the rich? Colorado thinks it has a new solution to raising revenue: Don't worry about taxing the rich or the poor, just tax the weed.

Overheard on the set

Anchor #1: "I'm excited. This is a big day."

Anchor #2: "I'm hungry."

Word Jumble

Joe and Becky love to play the Word Jumble in the paper. It's been a tough week for Becky. She got one win to Joe's three. Joe's bonus word of the week is SOCPRE. Becky's word is YIRATGV. (Get the answers at the end.)